Horrendous weather, war, famine... what is the world coming to?
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yawn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll
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No we are not.
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Nature's way of dealing with human stupidity and overpopulation.
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no just the world taking what we owe (sadly)
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We are living in the end times.
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Yes. Read Matthew 24 - he explains this as the signs of the end being near. Look up, for your redemption draws near. Time to get right wil God, all.
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No.
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Deadly weather has existed for billions of years on Earth. I guess that means the End Times are long overdue.
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100,000 that numbers dwarfed in comparison to the 500 million dead to small pox during the 20th centruy.
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it's no different than any other time. It's just that now we like to think we are better off than 500 years ago.
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Standard weather for this time of year - or perhaps you've missed this every year for the past several decades? It's what happens when humankind insist on living in areas hard hit by weather - they die for that extra cool beachfront property. The world is coming to people not paying attention.
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It's because Mother Earth pissed off at God.
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yes, we are. these are some of the birth pains Jesus spoke of.
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Yeah dude you got it its the end time.
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yes we are living in the end times, isn't it wonderful. i wish Jesus would hurry, i'm ready to go to heaven. i wish everybody was but some people are so hard headed they would rather go to hell than to admit they are wrong.
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There are still too many people.
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Actually, yes, I would definitely say we are living in the 'end times'. It seems we are almost under supernatrual siege with all these enormous natural disasters getting worse every year. The Church has also began deteriorating in America. Jesus can't be far!
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Yes read Matthew 24,, it tell,s all of this that is happening.
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These are the only times mankind has experienced catastrophic natural disasters.
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Did you hear about the 36,000 people of Java and Sumatra who were killed by the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa? In 1883. Or the 250,000 killed by the Antioch earthquake? Of 526. Here's a list of the 10 deadliest natural disasters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll#Ten_deadliest_natural_disasters
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there is 6.5 billion people in the world. 100,000 doesn't even make a dent.
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Yeah right! Like, whoa dude, there have never been natural disasters before! Learn a little history kiddies. These are, by far, not the worst natural disasters ever. Gimmie a f*****g break!
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Show me a time when none of that happened. I'll be on all night, so get back to me.
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60 million dead in WWII. Death and destruction has always been around. This isn't the end of the world.
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Natural disasters have been occurring since the beginning of this Earth. I mean I bet you the people who lived back in the beginning of the ice age probably thought that the world was going to end yet it didn't. What a surprise! EDIT AxisOfIntolerance has a point too you know. There have been natural disasters way worse than the cyclone at Burma and yet the world still stands. Like the 1931 Yellow river flood.
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It has always been the end times. We were born to die, and the world was created to end. We don't know when. Just be ready.
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The end times? Again? It's been claimed the end is nigh since medieval times and probably centuries before... *drink*
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Yes, most definitely it's the end of times. Can I have all of your stuff?
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I hope so. If nothing else it will be entertaining.
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And there will be quakes in diverse places. An earthquake in central Illinois. Can't get more diverse than that. If a person can't tell that we are in the end times , then it is because they don't want to know. And there shall be floods. There many floods happening all around the globe. And all these things are happening more frequently . Well,,, They cant say that they were not warned.
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The Bible does speak of the increase of such things as being a sign of the beginning of birth pains of the last days. Seems like such things are happening more frequently and with more intensity. Listening to the news today the first four top stories were all of natural disasters. Huge cyclone in Myanmar, devastating earthquake in China, volcano about to erupt in Chile, and multiple tornadoes over a swath of the USA. I thought wow, Birth Pains of prophecy? It does make one take notice and consider. Throw in the mix numerous countries that have been plunged into political instability due to raising food prices, creating masses of hungry people. Wow... PERHAPS we should take notice and consider the Creator while we still can.
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Sorry for the cut and paste but... End Times? Recent events are not new. The Yellowstone 1959 earthquake registered up to 7.5. The Alaska 1964 Earthquake registered a steady 8.4 with a peak of 9.2 on the Richter Scale. Two major earthquakes struck within months of each other in Northern Sumatra: December 2004 9.3 in intensity. March 2005 8.7 in intensity. Major earthquakes of these magnitudes are on going and there has been no significant increase to mark any cataclysmic "End of the World" or "End Times." Geographic evidence points to major earthquakes that can be measured in today's terms as far back as the middle 1500s. A significant number have been above 8 on the scale. The one that everyone is declaring to be a sign of the "end times" measured only 7.9.
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With the technology that is in place today, there shouldn't be this many people dying in disasters as we are seeing. What we are seeing is a God who is more powerful than any machine we can make to predict these cataclysmic events, and that's the big difference between today and hundreds of years ago - technology has advanced, but it can't stop God!
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Yes i believe we are living in the last days but i also believe there is going to be worse things happening before the end. It's plain to see so many things from the words how can anyone ignore it or say it isn't happening or isn't real? I can't believe how narrow minded some are to actually think a book with so much knowledge in it could have be created by a human being. I know there is several talented authors in this world but for most part most of them writes about one topic or another the bible is so educational on how the world was - is and is going to be.
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matthew 24. Hang on its going to get worse.
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Yes. It is in prophecy. All there in the bible!
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No. We are not living in the end times. There isn't any such thing to begin with. Regardless, at least once a generation, for as long as people have had the faculty of abstract referential thought, large numbers of people get to thinking that the end of days is here, either because of their dissatisfaction with the society that surrounds them or their erroneous perception that natural disasters are retributive and increasing in frequency. Despite their strong belief, the end doesn't happen. Quite frankly, it's pretty sick that so many Christians have a hard-on for the Apocalypse. Excuse my vulgarity; it's just so base and ignorant and inhumane to speak and think these things. Imagine your children or little brothers and sisters are playing in the neighborhood with the neighborhood kids when one of the children who just moved in (no body really knows the family yet) gets hit by a car and dies. Would you reward your daughter or approve of your younger sibling if she said that her closest friends and herself weren't sorry for the little boy or his family because his death meant somehow that they wouldn't get hit by a car - in fact, they reason that if the boy's whole family gets killed, then perhaps that's a good sign for her and her friends' families as well! The more the better! Perhaps this is not the most accute metaphore. But think: if you feel justified in wishing for the end of the world and think it is a truely good thing, shouldn't you feel bad for not working towards this Good? Shouldn't you try and expidite the process? Isn't that your duty? Certainly the natural disasters, having been brought on by human deeds, indicate that your actions are indeed welcome to bring us all closer to your glorious end times. I hope you see that I'm joking. I don't want anyone to take matters into their own hands. This is just to illustrate a point. And I hope you all can see my point.
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